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A healthy, calcium-rich diet and regular physical activity throughout life can help prevent osteoporosis.

Regular weight-bearing exercise and maintaining a diet rich in calcium from childhood will help reduce bone loss at menopause.

Osteoporosis in children is rare and usually caused by an underlying medical condition.

Exercise can reduce the risk of fractures resulting from osteoporosis by both slowing the rate of bone loss, and reducing the person?s risk of falling by building muscle strength and improving balance.

Up to 25 per cent of all fractures that occur in people with osteoporosis and osteopenia, occur in men.

Exercise can prevent age-related changes to muscles, bones and joints and can reverse these changes too.

Most procedures that measure bone density are quick and pain-free.

The health benefits of regular yoga practice may include lowering blood pressure, improved posture and circulation, and a sense of wellbeing.

A balanced approach to sunlight exposure will help you get enough vitamin D while protecting against skin cancer.

A woman at high risk of a particular disease should be checked more frequently and/or at an earlier age.